AN AMERICAN DEALER
in North Carolina is offering for sale the two
Walther pistols with which ADOLF
HITLER
killed himself. The Nazi Führer carried one
with him at all times in the final hours before his
death, and used both in his macabre suicide.

Cherry's Fine Guns, of
Greensboro, is asking over $3 million for the pair;
one a Walther PPK 7.65 calibre, was Hitler's
suicide weapon, the other, a Walther Special Model
8, 6.35 calibre, is the gun used by Geli
Raubal, Hitler's niece and lover, to commit
suicide in his Munich apartment in September 1931.

German author Ulrich
Völklein, has perused the Soviet
interrogation records of Otto Günsche,
Hitler's adjutant, and Heinz Linge, his
valet. Echoing what he exclusively related to
British historian David Irving in 1967 --
who donated copies of the Soviet interrogation
records to German archives later -- Günsche
said that he, Linge, and Martin Bormann
entered the Führer's private rooms in the
Berlin bunker when they smelt gunpowder.

Braun was lying on a sofa.
Hitler's body was slumped over the right side of a
chair.

Irving first described this
in his book Hitler's
War (The Viking
Press, 1977).

"Blood was dripping from his
right temple, a pool of blood was already on the
carpet," Günsche testified to the Soviets, "It
was immediately apparent that he had shot himself
from his own pistol, a PPK 7.65mm which eight days
previously after an emotional conference [on
April 22, 1945] he had taken out of his
bedside table and carried with him constantly,
loaded."

3.

David
Irving (left) interviews Otto
Günsche in November 1982

Linge confirmed that he
saw the PPK 7.65 on the floor to the right of
Hitler's body, and the 6.35 next to his left foot.
Günsche sketched the guns' position also for
David Irving in 1967.

After burning the bodies, as
he also told the British writer, Günsche put
both revolvers in his pocket and later gave them to
a Lieutenant Hamann, the adjutant to
Artur Axmann, head of the Hitler youth
movement.

The lieutenant apparently
wished to keep the guns as relics. Günsche
retained Hitler's fountain pen (which he still
has).

Hamann fell into Soviet
hands. Stalin is claimed to have kept the 7.65 in
his study.

Dealer Kevin Cherry
says that the guns were purchased from a Russian
source.

"Any buyer will be able to
see documents of the guns' provenance, including
infra-red documents showing proof of the Russian
sale."